Word: lies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senator over New Jersey State Aviation Director Gill Robb Wilson. Of his flyer in politics, Industrialist Hawkes says he hopes the voters will think: "Here's a fellow going on 64. Certainly he isn't trying to become a political boss." Albert Hawkes's interests lie in the field of labor relations (he resigned as a management member of the War Labor Board to enter the Senate race). As last year's President of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce he traveled 40,000 miles to urge U.S. businessmen to up war production. He believes in strict...
...without realizing that it's their own fault. Dictatorship strikes a democracy only when it's legislature has decayed completely, and is not established by a strong man's seizing power when no one is looking. If wartime rule by the executive results from Congressional palsy, the blame will lie solely on Capitol Hill, not on the White House...
...civilian goods -that threatens the U.S. cost of living. President Roosevelt has estimated this year's spread at $20,000,000,000. If the inflationary gap is to be closed, more bonds will have to be bought-voluntarily or otherwise-or still bigger, meaner and tougher tax bills lie ahead...
Janie (by Josephine Bentham & Herschel Williams; produced by Brock Pemberton) tells of a new Junior Miss up to new junior mischief. It tells it in terms of the present, when small towns lie chockablock with army camps, and harum-scarum, boy-crazy young things, talking weird slang in whiny voices, give high-school seniors the go-by and dashing privates the come-on. One night, while her parents are out, Janie (Gwen Anderson) throws a small party for the military, which by midnight achieves riotous and regimental proportions. Coca-Cola gives way to Scotch, soldiers get locked in bathrooms, jeeps...
Leaping from their tanks, the crews take no time to wash the desert paste from raw faces. They seize shovels, quickly dig slit trenches just deep enough to lie in full length below the desert floor. Beside each trench goes a bedding roll. Then the tankers turn to washing. They use their water cautiously. One gallon a day has to suffice each man for drinking, cooking, cleaning his mess gear, washing himself...